Auto-updater with Amazon S3

• electron-builder v14.5.2

• electron-updater v1.7.1

I’m having trouble setting the auto update process. I’m publishing my artifact on Amazon S3 correctly (and the auto-generated latest.yml as well). The folders are public.

I followed the wiki on how to implement the Auto-Updater and I see that I have the app-update.yml file in my resources folder, but when I start my application I get the

Checking for update…

message, but then I get no response about if there is an update available or not.

The latest.yml file contains the following fields:

version: 1.0.0
releaseDate: '2017-02-28T10:52:24.778Z'
githubArtifactName: my-Setup-1.0.0.exe
path: my_Setup_1.0.0.exe
sha2: 5a7459ca7bf33808e43803df72961584124ec42d28a2343d1bf62d4006c258e7

while the app-update.yml file in my resources folder contains:

provider: s3
bucket: my_bucket_name
path: path/to/my/files

The package.json looks like this:

...
"win": {
      "icon": "./img/icon.ico",
      "target": [
        "nsis"
      ],
      "publish": {
        "provider": "s3",
        "bucket": "my_bucket_name",
        "path": "path/to/my/files"
      }
    },
    "nsis": {
      "artifactName": "${productName}_Setup_${version}.${ext}",
      "installerIcon": "./img/installer_logo.ico"
    },
...

What am I doing wrong?

[dkapanidis]

This zip is required for Squirrel.Mac. So, you must use it and it will be uploaded. Sadly, but true.

Gosh, this should be somewhere in the documentation. I’ve been banging my head to find why the latest-mac.json was not published when I removed the zip target.

[develar]

It generates a zip that I’m not gonna use though.

This zip is required for Squirrel.Mac. So, you must use it and it will be uploaded. Sadly, but true.